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Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762141

Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007

characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

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Sweden’s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703767

Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2003

Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...

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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap

Gradín, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition for nonlinear regressions in order to quantify the extent to which differences in...

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Household Responses to Trade Shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

We use large-scale panel data from linked decadal censuses in England and Wales to study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply....

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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U …

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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003

Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …

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